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Article: Antiphon: Method behind Sonia Gandhi's 'reluctance'
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- India Abroad
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- December 4, 1998
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India Abroad
12-04-1998
Antiphon: Method behind Sonia Gandhi's `reluctance'
Media commentators sympathetic to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) often dared the seemingly interview-shy Sonia Gandhi to speak to journalists without a prepared text. She did last week.
The wife of the late-Rajiv Gandhi couldn't have chosen a better time for an impromptu television interview, even if it lasted only a couple of minutes. Just hours ago, on Nov. 29, it became official that the Congress Party had, under her stewardship, routed the BJP in three crucial states of the Hindi heartland.
The television appearance was obviously part of a well-crafted strategy to give herself a measured exposure to different ...